Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Stratford-on-Avon District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Stratford-on-Avon website
74,848 approved · 9,428 refused · 7,863 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1986 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land Adjacent To Harefield House Station Road Fenny Compton
Received 25 May 199050 Justins Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0DF
Received 13 May 201511 Broad Walk Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HS
Received 17 Jul 2009Land Adj 58 Model Village Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 21 May 2003154 Birmingham Road Kings Coughton Warwickshire
Received 12 Apr 2000The Hayloft Abbots Salford Evesham WR11 8UT
Received 18 Jun 2025Cherington House Cherington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HS
Received 31 Aug 2009Ravelston Main Road Upper Brailes OX15 5BA
Received 26 Aug 20216 Fisher Road Alcester B49 6FF
Received 24 Apr 2019Hedge Between 3758 And 6059 Land Off Spernall Lane Great Alne Alcester Warwickshire
Received 29 Mar 1999Felicita 4 Doctors Close Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AY
Received 10 Feb 2011Lower Oversley Lodge Oversley Green Alcester Warwickshire B49 6LJ
Received 21 Apr 1994Rear Of 8 Wilcox Close Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 30 May 200335 The Square Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HT
Received 11 Nov 2016Dog Lane Fisheries Priors Marston Road Napton-On-The-Hill CV47 8LT
Received 22 Jul 2020Banbury Compton Limited Station Works Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2XB
Received 27 Oct 2023Betweenways Hardwick Road Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RL
Received 18 Mar 199612 Holt Road Studley B80 7NX
Received 7 May 202126 Dale Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7EN
Received 19 Apr 2010Greenway Picnic Area Station Road Milcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 7 May 20024 Chestnut Walk Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HG
Received 20 Jan 2014Land Off Watery Lane Shipston-on-Stour
Received 9 Oct 19922- Oddfellows Cottage Banbury Road Kineton CV35 0JZ
Received 19 Apr 2018Orchard Cottage Frog Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LQ
Received 8 Mar 2001Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Stratford-on-Avon District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
Check collection coverage